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At HESA, a key part of our work on Graduate Outcomes is ensuring that league tables, like the wider higher education sector, understand the Graduate Outcomes survey data and the key differences from the Destination of Leavers in Higher Education (DLHE).

Graduate Outcomes is the largest annual social survey in the UK.  Summary results released today show the activities of graduates from the 2017/18 academic year 15 months after completion of a HE course.

Annual first release of graduate outcomes data for 2017/18.

  Open data licence: CC-BY-4.0

Neha Agarwal explains the connection between the two graduate surveys and the dissimilarities which make it impossible to compare them.

HESA has published its policy for releasing data from the new Graduate Outcomes survey ahead of its first experimental Statistical Bulletin on 18 June.

Detailed research behind the decision not to apply weighting to data and statistics from the 2017/18 Graduate Outcomes survey.

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Environmental information from UK HE providers including energy, water, emissions, waste, transport, buildings, and environmental management.

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HESA has consulted informally with representatives of HE and FE organisations about the design of the Graduate Outcomes Open Data release.